Stories
The Dry Highlighter
The map of the Douro had been folded in a drawer for years, from the trip she and Tomas never took. A story about finally planning the one that counts.
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Learning to Say No: The Word She Never Had a Word For
Norma left Saturday's square white in the rooster calendar and told Bev she wasn't driving to Millbrook, and the world did not end. It didn't even slow down.
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The last slow walkthrough of the family home always finds what the paperwork missed
The pot was lighter than she remembered. She turned it upside down and there was the dent, same dent, from the time her father dropped it on the back porch in 1...
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The Hands You Recognize
Ray stood at the back of his truck and didn't look at the trowel, but Darnell kept touching it the way a kid touches a new watch. The supply house doors were pr...
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Let the Grandkids Teach You for Once
Donal set it face-down on the placemat and then picked it back up. He pressed the button on the side and the screen lit blue and he flinched like it had bitten ...
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The List in the Junk Drawer
Vera found the old birthday notebook rubber banded in a bread bag behind the soup, three names crossed out in pencil and her own circled twice in red.
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The Buzzing You Didn't Sign Up For
The lamp store wanted him at 2:07 in the morning, and some part of him got up to see about it. He went down the list of apps the way he thinned a row of tomatoes.
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Wearing the bright color they always saved for later, before later runs out
A cobalt blouse four years in its plastic, a coral one from her mother's closet with the tag still on, and a jar of fig jam finally opened on ordinary toast.
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What I Learned From Teaching a Grandchild to Save for One Big Thing
A turquoise bike in a catalog, a mason jar with the picture taped on, and a granddaughter earning quarters. What one season of saving taught us both.
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Making a Place Feel Like Home in a Weekend Starts With One Honest Corner
Eleven boxes open and none finished, so she made a deal with the corner by the window: one chair, a brass lamp, two crooked prints, and coffee that came out too strong.
